Paul Tisdale had plenty to speak about after Exeter City beat Lincoln City 3-1 in last night's play-off semi-final to book a place at Wembley Stadium for the second year running.

Here is the full transcript from both press conferences that took place last night.

Paul Tisdale watches on with Matt Oakley during Exeter City's win over Lincoln City (Image: Pinnacle)

Congratulations on getting back to Wembley, what a performance.

I think we thoroughly deserved it, it was a purposeful performance of intent and as positive as we could have given. We obviously saw a lot on Saturday of the problems Lincoln can cause every team and we acknowledged it, you can’t stop everything, and of course they gave us a last 15 minutes of torrid, torrid pummelling into our box but what do you expect, they’re desperate to get the goals back. I’m very proud of the way we played.

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Anyone watching on the TV would have said ‘wow’ over the finishing for all three goals.

Jayden came in and said he couldn’t believe his was the worst goal of the three – a typical centre forward!

Hiram Boateng celebrates his goal against Lincoln City (Image: Pinnacle)

Hiram’s goal was great.

He probably owed us a goal, he’s got into some good positions a lot of the time, I think he’d say that himself. Ryan Harley, you just know he’s got that composure in him – he hit two in the first half and didn’t catch them at all, and that was the toughest of the lot. He just kept his eye on it, his head was beautifully still, what a strike – I have to say I did jump up and down a little bit. I think we thoroughly deserved it, there were some edgy last 10 minutes, but what do you expect?

Ryan had a great performance over the two legs.

When you consider that, like Jordan Moore-Taylor, he’d been out for five or six weeks, coming into this fortnight – those two players in particular, to show the level of tenacity, and energy and purpose they showed after being out for four, five, six weeks, just shows you the mentality and attitude of them, the mental resolve they’ve got to push themselves to those sorts of performances.

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I’m not. I’m actually not, I’ve got business to do – I’m already focussed now on the next 10 days. I don’t know how I feel, this feels very different to this time last year. Okay, we have to enjoy the moment, you don’t get days like this every year – okay, we did last year – but it’s not a given, you’ve got to earn these moments. All I can say is last year we celebrated and quite rightly, it was an amazing, amazing day against Carlisle, but once you then lose at Wembley, it doesn’t half take the shine off it. Let’s just remember that, because that doesn’t mean that because we think that, we’re going to win at Wembley, there’s another team that will be dearly wanting to win too. I don’t know how I feel, I feel proud of the players and I want them to get everything they deserve. They’re a fabulous bunch, a really good squad, they play for each other really hard. The players that weren’t selected trained so hard over the last three days not just to compete for a place but also to make the training lifelike. Many a squad would have had a very different attitude but my boys made everything correct for each other – I just them to get everything they deserve. That doesn’t mean we’ll get a win at Wembley, it just means we’ll give it our very best and enjoy it.

Ollie Watkins reacts to last year's play-off final loss to Blackpool (Image: Pinnacle)

You can draw on the experience of last year to help these players going into the final.

A lot of these players were here last year. As I said, it’s a very different feel. There’ll be a weekend off, but there’s quite a few in for training tomorrow – those that didn’t play tonight will be training hard tomorrow and that’s important as a lot can happen in the next 10 days so players need to be ready and available. It was a great day at the Park today, the last one of the season, the stand is going up, the moon is out, we scored fabulous long strikes, there was some great defending, some fantastic noise from the Big Bank and everyone’s really happy.

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I don’t know, I don’t watch a lot of football. I have got to give some time to my family – I might video it and watch it in work time. I might just put it on record and watch it next week sometime but I need to get my head around what we’re going to do next.

Jayden Stockley celebrates giving Exeter City the lead against Lincoln City (Image: Pinnacle)

The goals were of the highest standard. That must have put the icing on the whole occasion.

The actual strikes are the things that stand out and the second and third goals were just brilliant. The first goal was a really good team goal, it was something we were very pleased about for a number of reasons, it was a really good finish. Sometimes that first goal is the important one, it gets you in front and sets the tone. I just felt we scored at a good time in the second half – we knew on Saturday we had the best of the first half just but they came strong after half-time and we really wanted to make sure that didn’t happen, and I think we insured that with the way we went about that first 10 or 15 minutes after half-time.

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Has the experience of last season helped in the build-up to the play-offs?

We’ll see what happens. It feels very different today, yes we’ve celebrated but not in the same way. We feel fabulous and full of joy but not in the same way as last year. Last year, albeit we had that wonderful game here against Carlisle, it was soured by what happened 10 days later, so I think we’ve got a different mindset. That doesn’t mean we’re entitled to win the game because there’ll be another team that feel they’re worthy of a win too, so it just means we’ll go into the game slightly differently. I’m taking nothing for granted but I think we just to remember whatever happens it’s been a wonderful season, we’re very proud of what we’ve done and I just hope we can go one step further, but that’s not at all assuming anything, we’ve got a lot of work to do.

What did you think of the two penalty appeals from Lincoln?

They appeal a lot, so taken in context, I’d take it with a pinch of salt. They seem to appeal for everything. That’s the way they play, they stick it in there and go for bust, they put themselves around and they seem to appeal for everything. I thought the ref was very strong and made some good decisions, I’m not sure which ones you’re talking about, I’ve got to be honest. When the ball is round your ears and you’re jumping to head the ball, bodies are clattering into each other and we can all appeal for stuff, honestly, we can. I don’t know. I thought the referee was good – he’s not going to get every decision that suits everybody, but you can talk about every five minutes when the ball is coming out of the clouds and bouncing round your ears and everyone’s clattering in. We do that to them sometimes, they do it to us, we all jump, we all fight, the ball lands, people fall on the floor – the referee’s got a tough job.